Under the framework of the US-China Climate Change Working Group, there is a global effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Algenol’s patented Direct to Ethanol technology process utilizes industrial CO₂ emissions directly from power plants as a feedstock for proprietary cyanobacteria (blue green algae) to produce the four most important renewable transportation fuels (ethanol, gas, diesel and jet).

On one wet acre of algal cultivation, Algenol can produce around 8,000 gallons of liquid fuels with a majority gallons of ethanol, 500 gallons of jet ultra-low sulfur diesel, 380 gallons of gasoline and 315 gallons of jet fuel. This net production of around 8,000 gallons of fuel products on a single acre of land compares favorably to corn at 420 gallons per acre per year, Algenol suggests.

This partnership unites the economic and environmental benefits of Algenol’s technologies with ZYNE’s existing expertise in delivering renewable fuels in China.

The companies will identify and evaluate the utilization of CO₂ emissions from industrial sources such as power plants, steel mills, cement and chemical factories in the Fujian province, and other parts of Southern China. Once the CO₂ sources are identified, the process will begin to incorporate Algenol’s technology solution of carbon capture and utilization and renewable fuel production.

An added benefit of Algenol’s technology is the primary by-product of clean water, which is valuable to many communities in Southern China.

At the beginning of 2015, the US Department of Commerce and the US Department of Energy invited Algenol to join a Presidential Trade Mission to China. The mission highlighted Algenol’s technology as a solution for significant reduction of China’s carbon emission pollution.